An Ache in Every Stake

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An Ache in Every Stake is a 1941 short-subject comedy film starring the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly). It was directed by Del Lord and written by Lloyd French. Ache features several Stooge regulars: Vernon Dent (as 'Poindexter Lawrence'), Symona Boniface (as a dinner guest), Bud Jamison (as a baker), and Gino Corrado (as the original cook).

[edit] Plot

The Stooges are icemen making a delivery at a house atop a long, high staircase. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the Boys are hired to replace them and prepare dinner for a birthday party—for a man (Dent) whose cakes they had previously wrecked. After the Stooges sing a ‘Happy Birthday’ song to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down and Moe's gas-filled cake explodes, 'Lawrence' (Dent) realizes who the new ‘help’ are, and the Stooges are forced to leave in a hurry.

[edit] Trivia

The long staircase in this short is not the same one used in Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box (1932). The Ache stairs (147 steps in length) are about two miles northeast, between 2257 and 2258 Fair Oak View Terrace in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.

This short was colorized for DVD in 2004.

Curly's turkey-stuffing scene was previously used in the Shemp solo short A Peach of a Pair (1934) and later performed again by Shemp in the Stooge short Listen Judge (1952).